It's a simple problem: to catch the train you have to get to the platform. But sometimes the way our stations are designed has passengers returning to their cars, write David Levinson and Bahman Lahoorpoor.

MORNING BRIEFING: The state's pricing regulator is considering an overhaul of the Opal ticketing system, while Chris Hemsworth helps out at the tuckshop of a Byron Bay school where a teacher was stabbed yesterday.

It might seem like talk of light rail in the nation's capital has been going on forever — but in a matter of hours the ACT's largest ever infrastructure project will go live. It's the result of several years of false starts, changed routes, and squabbling over how to pay for it.

Construction on a high-speed rail line, cutting the trip between Melbourne and Geelong to just 32 minutes, would begin in about 18 months under a plan announced by the Federal Government, with the election less than two months away.

Gladys Berejiklian and NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance ride her Government's flagship infrastructure project, the Sydney Metro Northwest rail, which boasts driverless trains and is due to open in May.